These events are organized by the Centre for Political Thought and supported by the Exeter-Fudan Global Thought Network and the Entanglement of Political Languages Research Network.

 Professor SUN Xiangchen

Workshop on Self, Family, Community; Reading Group on How to Interpret Chinese Philosophy to the West

Thursday 11 May – 11.00-16.30, LT1/Institute Arab and Islamic Studies Building

Research Workshop on:

Self, Family and Community: Eastern and Western Perspectives

Programme

11.00: Session on the Family

SUN Xiangchen (Dean of the School of Philosophy, Fudan University):

“Family Feeling”, followed by discussion

12.30-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.30 Session on Community

Presentations: Robin Durie and Jack Tagney (University of Exeter), followed by discussion

14.30-15.45  Session on the self, subjectivity and the state

Presentation: Nathan Widder (Royal Holloway), followed by discussion

15.45-16.00 Tea/Coffee

16.00-16.30 Concluding Discussion

There is a buffet lunch for this event. Please, confirm your participation by writing to d.castiglione@exeter.ac.uk and b.zhao@exeter.ac.uk

Friday 19 May – 12.00-2.30, Knightley Building, Conference Room

Reading Group Session:

How to Interpret Chinese Philosophy to the West

Professor SUN Xiangchen (Dean of the School of Philosophy, Fudan University)

There is a buffet lunch for this event. Please, confirm your participation by writing to d.castiglione@exeter.ac.uk and b.zhao@exeter.ac.uk

SUN Xiangchen is a Professor of Philosophy and Dean at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai. He received his BA, MA and PhD degrees at Fudan University. His fields of study include early modern philosophy, enlightenment philosophy, political philosophy, Jewish-Christian philosophy, phenomenology, and comparative philosophy. He has been a visiting scholar or an invited researcher at Peking University, Yale University, University of Birmingham, University of Chicago, Freie Universität Berlin, École Normale Supérieure, and many other research institutes worldwide. He has recently published On Family: Individual and Qin-Qin [‘Affection for Kin’] (2019). His other major publications include: Facing the Other: On Levinas' Philosophical Thought (2008), Political Philosophy and Sino-Theology (co-author 2007), Metaphysics of Seventeen Century (co-author, 2005), and he is also the translator of the books Does God Exist (by Kung, 2003) and Psychoanalysis & Religion (by Erich Fromm, 2006).

Date: 8 May 2023